A Brief History of the Anglo-Saxons (69 page)

Malcolm, king of Scots
203
,
315

Maldon, battle of
194
,
235
,
293–4
,
295
,
297

Malmesbury
56

Martin I, Pope
46–7

Maserfelth, battle of
70
,
71
,
72

Matilda, abbess of Essen
161

Matilda (wife of Emperor Henry V)
351

Matilda (wife of Henry I)
351

Medeshamstede
94
,
96
,
110
,
112
,
189
,
247–8

Mellitus, bishop of London
18
,
36
,
43

Mercia
19
,
32
,
92–119

building projects
110–11

Christianity in
96–8

decline of
117–19

international affairs
108–9

the Mercian Church
105–8

minsters
111–12

origins of kingdom
93–6

trade
113–16

under Æthelflæd
265–7

under Vikings
187
,
188
,
195–6

Merovingian dynasty
33
,
61
,
121–2
,
125
,
128
,
136–7
,
154

Middle Angles
94

Middle Anglia
32

minsters, Anglo-Saxon
111–12
,
178

mints, Anglo-Saxon
116
,
198
,
285–7
,
313
,
335

monasteries
xxxv–xxxvi
,
86
,
89–91
,
170
,
295–6

monastic revival
280–2

Monkwearmouth-Jarrow
xxxvi
,
xxxvii
,
76
,
78
,
91
,
176

Morcar, Earl of Mercia
334
,
336
,
340
,
342

Mount Badon, battle of
7–8

Mull, king of Kent
49
,
50
,
53

navy, Anglo-Saxon
230–2
,
300

Nechtansmer, battle of
82

Nennius
8
,
20

nobility
75–6
,
83
,
219

Norman conquest
334–53

Normans and Normandy
181
,
199
,
260–1
,
299

Northumbria
19–24
,
32
,
60–91

administrative structure
64

Christianity in
49
,
65–7
,
68–9
,
74

expansionism
73
,
82

formation of kingdom
62–7

learning and the arts
86–91

noble clerics
75–80

Synod of Whitby
80–1

under Oswald
69–71

under Vikings
187–8
,
197
,
199
,
203–4

waning of
83–6

Nothelm, bishop of London
93

Oda, archbishop of Canterbury
280
,
281

Odberht
103

Odilo, Duke
138

Offa, king of Mercia
13
,
58
,
92
,
94
,
100–5
,
106
,
107
,
108–9
,
185
,
237

Offa’s Dyke
92
,
101

Oisc
14

Olaf the Good (the Stout)
314
,
315

Olaf Guthfrithsson
200
,
202
,
269
,
275

Olaf Sihtricson, king of York
193
,
200

Olaf Tryggvason
297–8

Ordlaf, ealdorman
284

Osburh
206
,
219

Oslac ‘the Butler’
219

Osred, king of Northumbria
83

Osred II, king of Northumbria
85

Osric, ealdorman
179

Osric, king of Deira
67
,
72

Oswald, bishop of Worcester, archbishop of York
280
,
281
,
282
,
295

Oswald, king of Northumbria
28
,
44
,
49
,
61
,
63–4
,
67–72
,
98
,
118–19
,
127
,
153
,
161–2
,
273
,
279

Oswine, king of Deira
72
,
73
,
76

Oswiu, king of Bernicia
61
,
63–4
,
71–4
,
75
,
77
,
78–81
,
82
,
96

Otford
102
,
307

Otto I, Emperor (Otto of Saxony)
162
,
272

Owain of Strathclyde
203
,
269

paganism
15
,
35–6
,
49
,
122
,
132–3
,
137
,
142

Papacy
32–6
,
36–7
,
80–1
,
82
,
106
,
108–9
,
123
,
125
,
130
,
132
,
135–6
,
138–9
,
148
,
149
,
151
,
165
,
172
,
207
,
294–5
,
313
,
324
,
325

Paschal I, Pope
115

Pastoral Care
(Gregory the Great)
215–16
,
219
,
220

Patrick, St
32

Paul the Deacon
166

Paulinus, bishop of York
65
,
66–7
,
68
,
69
,
79